Highschool

Greetings everyone,

Now that my last term of primary/intermediate is slowly coming to a end I thought I would share with everyone my most favourite memiors of school for me .

1. Thursday Sport

Thursday sport has always been something that I have enjoyed because you get to play a sport you love with new people meaning it means you can make new friends aswell.

2.Friends
Now even though alot of my friends are going to the same highscool as me there are still some that are going to highschools like Boys High. I will miss them all but I had great memiors with them and I will sitll try to catch up with them.
3.Events
One thing I have enjoyed alot is all the events we have done. For example, Flip Out, Camp and many more.

I hope everyone enjoyed my blog today and I will truly miss all the great memiorss I have had at Our Lady of Fatima and St Francis Of Asissi. What was your favourite memory at school?

Speech

Greeting everyone,
Today I will be talking about my speech and showing it to you.
In term 3 we did our speeches which I enjoy alot. we had to make a speech about what we want our legacy to be, it also had to be 4min long.
Speech
I enjoyed presenting my speech because every since I was older I loved presenting speeches in public.

I hope everyone enjoyed my blog today.
What would you do your speech on?

Swimming

Greeting everyone today I will be talking about when I did swimming in week 7.
Now normally we do swimming throughout week 7 to week 8 but unforuntely I was sick for the whole of week 8 so I missed out on alot of swimming. However the swimming I did do I enjoyed alot. Now Im not the best swimmer in the world which means I always try to get better. In week 7 I learnt alot about how to be faster at kicking, free styler, back stroke and survival back stroke which is my favourite. We also did Diving which is not my best swimming ability either. When we did our dives I did the biggest belly flop ever to the point where my splash even got the teach soacking wet with water. However it was very fun trying to dive (Even though I did the biggest flop in the world).

Thank you everyone for reading my blog today.
What kind of swimming are you best at?

My memior

Greeting everyone,

Today we will be talking abiut my memior.

As a part of PBL we had to do a memior about our favourite memory at St Francis Of Assisi.

I did my memior on flip out, It was a trampoline park we went towards the end of the year.

I really enjoyed Flip out because it was a good memory with all my old good firends before they went to highschool.

Flipout

This is a photograph. It was taken at Flip Out on the 25th of September 2017 end of term 3. I am 12 and I’m in the the top right corner with my friends. As you can see from my straight hair, I am tired from running around hours upon hours chasing my friends and them chasing me. We bounced and defended foam castles from the girls for they tried to break it with foam. So Lorenzo and I had to try and act like guards and protect the castle from evil. We then all left Flip Out awaiting the adventures at school.

I am so glad we did this because it was a great experience last year because it was memory that we would all treasure and remember and I wish we did again this year.   

I hope everyone enjoyed my blog today

Where would you wanna go on the last day of school?

Science

Greetings everyone,

Today I will be talking about my Science Question, Backgound Research and Hypothesis.

This Term we are doing our Science Fair and before we can do or experients we have to do those 3
subjects said before. First we think of a queston we can do. Once we figure it out we need to get
reseach (Background Research). After that we then make our hypothesis based of the research we have
found.

My groups question is what temperature of water freezes the quickest?

Now here is my groups background research.

Background Research

-Hot water freezes quicker based of the mpemba effect named after a high school student. The
mpemba is when hot freezes faster than cold water who first discovered/observed this logic
in 1963. One big key factor to the mpemba effect is evaporation especially if the water evaporating is in a closed environment.

This was first found out when Erasto Mpemba a 13 old Tanzanian school thought that he could freeze
Ice cream faster if he heated it first which is what the Mpemba effect is based around however studies
have shown that this effect may only work sometimes for it is not a 100% success rate.  

References:

Mpemba Effect

Then this is our hypothesis we based off our background research.

-Hot water will freeze  quicker than cold water.

Thats my blog for today and I hope you all enjoyed it.

Let me know in the comments below what would you do for a science project and what do you think
the outcome would be?

Centrals

Greetings everyone today I will be talking about my exprience at centrals repesenting our school in football. Centrals was a great expreicne for me because it showed how all the schools in christchurch play football which I found very eye opening.

At Centrals however the one thing I didn't enjoy alot was that since there were so many fields, there werre 4 games being played on one field. What they did what that they split the pitch up into qaurter then within the tiny pitch they divided that into 3 thirds. So that means that to score you must be withing the third the goal is in.

Overall however once we adjusted to the smaller pitches we started playing better football which meant we were winning more games. We finished 8th I believe overall (Which I am still very happy with).

Thank you everyone for reading my blog today.

What sport would you do for centrals?

Athletics

Greetings everyone,
Today I will be talking about last week we did Athletics.
It was very fun and there were some very enjoyable moments.
I competed in Discs, Shotput, Long Distance and Sprints (60m, 100m) My best sport was Discs because I threw 17.3 meters which meant I came third, but unfortunely only top 2 qaulified for zones.
The worst thing is that the person that came 3rd beat me by 20cm becasue he threw 17.5m. But overall I really enjoyed it and I am proud with how I went.

I hope everyone enjoyed my blog today, What sport/event are you best at?

Shared Lunch

Today we had a shared lunch with our hub. But It wasen't your normal everyday shared lunch. The reason this one was different, was because every people students were put into a group they reprsented our country. For example,  My group did Ireland so that meant that we brang in irish food or food that was very popular in Ireland. I brought in stacked potatoes which we filled with a bacon filling and had corn in it aswell. I loved it because it was filled with so many different flavours.

Overall I really enjoyed it because it meant I got to try food from countries that I may never travel to in my lifetime. My favourite food would of have to been the pancakes because they were so juicy.

I hope everyone enjoyed my blog today and what food what you want try from a different country

Productions

Greetings everyone today I am talking about the production we are doing this term.

Our Production is about how there were 2 Moari Gods and there children split them up.
I am In the group called Rangi the Father. There is a group for every maori God.
Our Group is using some make up to put on our face aswell. Then everyone in the backround is wearing black. Then our main Charater is wearing Blue to repersenive the sky.

This is our first song called wolves. We picked this song because since it has alot of different beats if makes a lot easier to have our dance intime with the song.

Thank you everyone for reading my blog today.

What kind of dancing would you do?

One Feet Two Wings

Greetings everyone,
Today I will be talking about the new book my group has been reading called One Feet To Wings.

• Why did you choose this book?

I chose this book because it shows alot about how some people have to live so it really makes you think about how lucky you are, plus the one of main chararcters likes football.

• Summarise what you have read so far?

so far I have read that his family have forced him to move out of the country to prevent him being involved in the war and his dad can't leave the country because of how well known he is.

• Has the book started off how you thought? Why/why not?

Yes because I thought since it was Iran I knew there might have something to do with a war.

• Describe the literacy circle method of reading that we are using this term.

Basically is that we all read a certain amount of pages each week then we all have role that we use throghout the term

• How have you found this so far?

Fun However next time I would like a book that talks more about sport.

• What are you looking forward to the most in reading this term? Why?

That the litracy circles because it means we are all involved I just wish there were more books about sport

I hope you enjoyed my blog today. What book would you want to read?

How to Create A Blog Better Then Anyone Else

Greetings everyone today I am talking about how to make the perfact blog. Here I will show a list of order to make sure you make the best blog, better then everyone elses.

1.Catchy Title
A Cathy Title is key because it hooks the viewer/reader into blog making wanting to read it longer to see the final outcome of the blog.

2.Introduction
If you have a good introduction you will be amazed to see how much of a difference it will make to your blog because its basically get them excited about reading the blog.

3.DLO
In a learning blog it is encitial that you have a DLO or a Digital Learning Object because it shows how hard you have worked and also it can mean to teach them how do something.

4.Reflection
A Relfection is basically summing up the whole blog in a couple sentences. It also means they can have a quick over view on the whole blog without having to read it all.

5.Sources
With any research you need to show where you got it from which means that lets say I was talking about a Double Cheese burger and how good they are I would need to show where  I got it from.

6.Questions and Lables
These are one of the most inportant things to have in your blog because when people first look one of things they see is the labels which will tell them what the story/blog is about.
Then If you add a question at the end it means you can have communticate to the audience and also get vital feedback from to make your blog even better

I hope everyone enjoyed reading my blog today, Remember if you ever want to make the perfact just follows and you will be amazed

Are there any other steps that you do to make the perfact blog?

Holidays

 In the holidays I went to my batch in Parerora for a couple days and it was so fun because we made a hut that we stayed in overnight and added more parts onto it so we can eat there aswell. Then we went to Hamner Springs with some friends. When we first got there we decided to go to the pool. When we got to the pool we decided to go to the slides because we love to go on the Superbowl.

Overall I really enjoyed my weekend because I got to spend quality time with the family.

What do you do on the Holidays?

Thursday Sport

Greetings everyone, today I will be talking about how we went this week for Thursday sport.
This week we versed RedCliffs and we drew 1-1.
It was a very exciting game we scored the first goal barely when one of our players smashed it into the goal after the keeper saved it in the first half. After that both teams were trying to keep position however one of the Redcliff strikers volleyed it into the top right corner, it was an amazing strike towards half way of the second half. Both Teams then tried to take the win home with a final goal but both teams were defending really well for it stayed as a 1-1 draw.

Then as everyone was taking there shin pads off the coach annouced player of the day!
It went to Guy for his amazing goal in the first half!

Both teams then shook hands and went back to there buses.
Thank you everyone for reading my blog today.

What sport would you play for Thursday Sport?

Caritas

Greetins everyone,
Today I will be talking about our Caritas challenge.
One thing we have been learning about is caritas it is a company where it helps people in Timor-Leste in so many ways.
One thing they do is they teach woman how to run buisness so then can make money and feed for there family. They also do a thing called The Caritas Challenge.

How this works is that school take part in this challenge by fundrasing money  then doing 1-3 of the challenges. Which are Move it Challene which is where you do sport for 24 hours, theres then the sweat it market where you make stuff that you can sell for 24 hours or my favourite one the live it challenge where you sleep in a carboard box overnight for 24 hours. This was the challenge our school did but through out the day we still did some of the move it challenge as well as the sweat it challenge.

It was very enjoyable because for the live it challenge we did it in groups of 2-5 and my group bonded really well to make a very comforable carboard house. Also it was very amazing to see how we all came together and put aside everyday comfort like TV, bed, food and so many more things to show our support to caritas aswell as Timor-Leste.

Reflection
1.Describe your Experience of Caritas so far?
So far it has been really fun and I also have learnt a lot about what its like in Timor-Leste. For Example, I have noticed actaully how much we take food for granted because like they eat Rice in the Morning, Middle of the day and for dinner.

2.What has been a challenge for you so far during the day and/or what might be a challenge for you during the night? How did you or will you overcome this?
Probaly eating because since we have been doing so much sport my stomach has got very hungry!
I will overcome by thinking that if Timor-Leste people can do this there whole life I can do it for 24 hours.

3. What Connections can you make with people of Timor-Leste/ those living in poverty from your experience in our Caritas Challenge so far?
That is hard to live like this but as long as you have someone by your side it makes it a lot easier however some people don't even have that which I understand can be very difficult

4. What could you do to help those living in poverty in our local community? (Think to our City Missioner visit this morning).
Do Fund Raisers or help by not giving money to the poor and actually just give money to the City Misson so then they can use it wisely.

5.What have you learned about Socail Justice and Empathy while paricipating in our Kaupeka Caritas Challenge?
That you really need to make sure you don't take granted how lucky we actaully are.



I hope everyone enjoyed reading my blog today.
What challenge would you take part in? (Move it, Sweat it or Live it)

Thursday Sport

Greetings everyone,
Today my blog will be about Thursday Sport.
Since it is a new term Thursday Sport has started which is where some schools enter teams into a sport compititon that is carryed out every thursday. The Sports are Football, Ruby, Netball and Hockey.
I play for the Football A team which means every thursday we go on a bus down to hagley to play a school.

I personally really enjoy thursday sport because you make so many new friends on and off the pitch.
My team lost our first game to a very good side we will try and win next week and now we also now where everyone likes to play.

Thank you for reading my blog and I hope you have a nice day.
Also what sport would you pick to play?

My Goals For PALS

Greetings everyone,
Today I will be talking my goals for PALS (my leadership group).
If you are unsure on whats PALS is let me explain.
PALS is a leadership group that runs sport at our school. There are also other leadership groups like enviroment team and media team just to name a few. Only year 8 can be in these groups for it teaches us about how to interact with people younger then us and it helps develop us into the leaders we are today.

Our Goals for pals is to run games each day and also make sure we get everyone to join in for all we wont to do is to make sport enjoyable for everyone. I love PALS because Naz, Jonte and I run Football every friday to show our comitment for our leadership group and we also get cool badges that say PALS on them.

I hope everyone enjoyed my blog today and what kind of leadership team would you be in?

Learning Showcase

Greetings everyone,
Today I will be taking my learning showcase which is where I show all my learning that I have done over the term. We will be showing our learning showcase today and tonight aswell between 6.00 to 7.30. To present our learning we staple it up on the walls to show our parents or students.

I am showing my painting, my poem and my family tree. I am very proud to show my work for I put a lot of effort into it.

What's your proudest piece of work and why?

Goals For Next Term

Greetings everyone, today I will be talking about my goals for next term and how term 2 has been.
This term I have had so much fun making new friends because it means that you get to experience a lot of different personalities every day.

My goals for term 2 is to be in the A Team for football or A Team for hockey.  I did my trials in week 10. I would also to like to be always up to date. I feel this term I have let myself down in managing my own time. However with learning how to manage my own time means that I will be working a lot harder. It will mean though that I will be trying to have avlot higher quality work.

Thank you everyone for reading my blog today. What would you like to work on moving into term 2?

Thursday Sport Trials

Greetings everyone,
Today I will be talking about my Thursday sport trial that I did in week 10.
It was very fun for I love Football and I also love playing hockey which is what I did for my second choice.

Football
I didn't do too bad for my football trials. I scored 3 goals, 1 was a header and the other 2 were just normal shots. My defending was alright but I felt that I could of dropped back more in defense and pass a bit more.

Hockey
I was quite happy with how went because I scored 2 goals and got 1 assist. I felt that I could have done more in defense but there is always something to work on.

Thanks for reading my blog today and what you would you trial in sport?

Ferrymead Trip and The Bridal Path

Greetings everyone,
Today I will be talking to you guys about the Bridal Path and the Ferrymead trip.
On the 16th of March we went up to Ferrymead in groups of two. One group goes to Ferrymead Town and one group walks up the Bridal Path. I went around Ferrymead Town first which was very fun. We got to make cookies and we learnt what is was like to live in the 1850s.

We then walked up the Bridal Path which was quite hard but it was very fun at the same time. No one complained and we all helped each other and encouraged everyone to finish. I loved that the most because even if someone wasn't your friend or you don't really talk to, we still worked together to finish the Bridal Path.

I hope everyone enjoyed my blog today. What one would you enjoy more the Bridal Path or the Ferrymead tour around the town?

Duathlon

Greetings everyone,

Today I will telling you guys about our schools Duathlon  that happend in week 6 on Thursday.

It was a lot of fun but I didn't take part in the race however I did Marshall which was surprisingly fun because you got to encourage people. You could shout at the top of your voice which I personally find really fun.

One reason why I really like it though was because for the whole day I was sitting under a tree on a hot day encouraging people. Can't ask for anything better.

Thank you for reading my blog today and what would you like more Marshaling or doing the actual race?

My Personal Tresures

Greetings everyone, this is my first blog of 2018. Today I will be talking about my personal treasures.

In week 3-5 our whole hub shared our family treasures. I shared a photo of when I was in my first Football tournament in Nelson and photos of Grandad Arthur.

1. Grandad Arthur
The reason why I bought pictures of Grandad Arthur for one of my Treasures is because he is a big part of me. I may have never seen him with my own eyes but I have always looked up to him because of his bravery, kindness, fearlessness and a loving personality.

2.First ever football tournament
The reason why I brought this treasure in is because as you may know I LOVE football and this picture was the first ever time I went to a tournament for a club. It was my first ever year playing Football!

Another reason why I love this photo is because in that team I made friends that I still know today and this photo is about 3-4 years old. These were also most of the people that play football by my side till this day.

I hope everyone enjoyed my blog today. What do you think you would show people as your personal treasures? Let me know in the comments!